Key Facts About Poverty
- Nutrition
- Clean Water
- Sanitation facilities
- Access to basic healthcare
- Adequate shelter
- Education & information
More than 1 billion children are severely deprived of at least the essential services and goods to SURVIVE, GROW and DEVELOP
- 9.2 million children die each year
- 3.3. million babies are born still born
WHY?
The poorest of families are unable to obtain basic healthcare for their children. Most of the countries with weakened healthcare systems are in:
- Major armed conflict
- Cannot provide effective child survival strategies crucial to child development and neonatal deaths
The Solutions
Death can be avoided with proven, low cost preventative care and treatment. Scaling up effective health services by providing education services and better trained health workers. Supporting children at risk by:
- Continuous breastfeeding
- Vaccinations
- Adequate nutrition
- Mosquito nets
- Key Health Services Needed
- Antenatal care
- Skilled attendance @ delivery
- Postnatal care
- Child Health
- Equity of access in health systems
29,000 – the # of children who die every day from preventable causes
Hidden Choices is committed to the long term goals of saving lives that are mired in poverty and death.
According to the World Health Organization in June 2012, the US Government, The Governments of Ethiopia and India signed a pledge to reduce child mortality. It was the beginning of a world wide effort to save children’s lives; attainable, but not without long term commitment.
The message in 2012 was this: we have the knowledge and technology today to end preventable deaths of children under 5 child mortality rate to 20 per 1,000 births in every country.
In 2001, the World Health Organization estimated the leading causes of preventable death of children under 5, most during the 1st month of life, died from preventable causes attributable to acute respiratory infections, measles, diarrhea, malaria & HIV AIDS.
According to WHO:
- Over 1/3 of all child deaths are linked to malnutrition
- Children in developing countries 10 times more likely to die before age 5
- 9 million children under 5 die every year
- 70% of these deaths due to preventable causes